Rig Rundown: Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

While on tour with Glenn Danzig in Nashville, Tennessee, Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein met with Premier Guitar’s John Bohlinger to detail his rig.

Guitars
Doyle’s main guitars are his own design—he drew the shape on a textbook jacket way back in high school—and he machines the parts himself in his father’s shop. They feature a graphite neck-through design with detachable wings, a single Seymour Duncan Invader pickup, and a Floyd Rose Original bridge that Doyle modified to function as a stop-tail bridge. Why? He says it has fewer sharp edges to cut himself on while thrashing about onstage.

Effects
Given the raw, unbridled power of the guitar parts in classic Misfits tunes, as well as the down-tuned metal of Doyle’s eponymous side project, it’s no surprise that his pedalboard is barebones: An MXR DC Brick powers a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, a HardWire SC-2 Valve Distortion, and a custom A/B box that switches between two Line 6 Relay G50 wireless transmitters.

As Premier Guitar chief content officer since January 2010, Shawn Hammond oversees all of PG’s articles, videos, audio, and social media offerings. Although he’s probably as loathe to admit his alma mater as they are to claim him, Shawn has a degree in journalism from Brigham Young University, and a long history in guitar journalism predating his tenure at PG. He’s an avowed Tele, Bigsby, and baritone fanatic, and as his Tuning Up columns regularly reveal, he’s kind of a cantankerous bastard who tends to flip the bird at convention.

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